The FBI's New Face Recognition Database Will Have 52 Million Entries by 2015

The FBI's New Face Recognition Database Will Have 52 Million Entries by 2015

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been reporting on this initiative for years and recently won a lawsuit against the FBI over a Freedom of Information Act request to see more documents related to data collection for facial recognition. And the numbers EFF now has about what's in the database are staggering.

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